Slightly longer than a little while ago, I read the post over on Argentbadger’s blog, The Bovine Overlord featuring his completed Crisis Protocol model of Iron Fist. In much the same way as I followed Argentbadger after seeing his Luke Cage with my own, I’ve also followed his Iron Fist with my version of the model – with of course the requisite several months to get my model painted. (Yes, this model was started in 2023!)

I’m honestly not a huge fan of this model. It has that typical overdesigned look that so many of the Crisis Protocol models have, with a convoluted pose flipping over things while in this case connected to the bases with a flimsy and thin piece of weak HIPS plastic “spell effect”.

Because of this – and the fact that I decided to magnetise the bases of my Crisis Protocol models – because what foam figure case could store these things? – I embedded some debris into his base which serves as a handy-dandy handle to pick the figure up with.

It’s a little unseemly – and it definitely messes up his cool “Dragon Punch” profile – but with a model this ridiculously fragile, I felt I needed a solution to not have the magnets that save the figure from disintegrating in a foam case just end up causing him to snap in half instead… oh, and I know that fire doesn’t work in the way that the Dragon Punch is painted – it’s magic, okay?

Fun Factoid! Until very recently, (basically, when the Netflix show and publicity articles came out) I had always assumed that Iron Fist/Danny Rand was of Asian descent. I mean, Bruce Lee and all, right? Power Man and Iron Fist – A black guy and an Asian guy teaming up to kick arse – it all made sense to me as a kid, and since I never followed the comic and it made sense to me then, I never questioned it after that.

To be honest, I was a little disappointed to see Iron Fist as just another white guy – probably because I’d always assumed the opposite.

Anyway – here they are – completed! Together again for the first time in my own collection.